and Explanation:yes. The speaker was a htpochondriac. First as he read the symptoms of all the diseases in a british muesum, the tought that his liver was out of order and he had all the diseases expect the HOUSEMAID's knee. he went to his friend who was a doctor. When he LISTENED this, he just scolded his friend by doing some wierd things hypochondria is a condition in which a person is excessively and unduly worried about having a serious illness. An old concept, the meaning of hypochondria has repeatedly changed. It has been claimed that this debilitating condition results from an inaccurate perception of the condition of body or mind despite the absence of an actual medical diagnosis. An individual with hypochondriasis is known as a hypochondriac. Hypochondriacs become unduly ALARMED about any physical or PSYCHOLOGICAL symptoms they detect, no matter how minor the symptom may be, and are convinced that they or others have, or are about to be diagnosed with, a serious illness.